Author: Lioba Ferreiro
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Phishing Is Harder to Spot on a Phone
Read more: Phishing Is Harder to Spot on a PhoneI was sitting at my workbench yesterday, squinting through my jeweler’s loupe at the tiny, rhythmic dance of a brass escapement wheel, when my phone buzzed with a frantic text…
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Phone Scans That Look Like Scans
Read more: Phone Scans That Look Like ScansI spent thirty-four years watching students stare at a physics problem as if the math were a magic trick, rather than a series of predictable, mechanical interactions. Most people treat…
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Scanning and Naming Documents
Read more: Scanning and Naming DocumentsI spent thirty-four years in a physics classroom, and if there is one thing I learned, it’s that people love to sell you a complicated solution for a problem that…
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Translation Apps and Their Accuracy
Read more: Translation Apps and Their AccuracyI remember standing in a cramped, humid bakery in Lisbon last summer, staring at a handwritten sign that might have been a menu or a warning, feeling utterly useless. I…
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A Watch That Lost Its Phone
Read more: A Watch That Lost Its PhoneI was sitting at my workbench last Tuesday, the smell of isopropyl alcohol still hanging in the air, when my grandson came in looking utterly defeated by his wrist. He’d…
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Printing From a Phone
Read more: Printing From a PhoneI was sitting at my workbench yesterday, surrounded by the tiny, rhythmic heartbeat of a disassembled 1950s mantle clock, when my grandson asked me how to set up a printer…
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Location That Is Wildly Wrong
Read more: Location That Is Wildly WrongI was sitting at my workbench last Tuesday, squinting through my loupe at the escapement of a 19th-century carriage clock, when my phone decided it was actually in the middle…
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Projector Brightness in a Normal Room
Read more: Projector Brightness in a Normal RoomI spent thirty years in a classroom watching students stare blankly at spec sheets, mesmerized by numbers that ultimately meant nothing once the lights went down. Most people approach the…
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Sim Swapping and How to Block It
Read more: Sim Swapping and How to Block ItI was sitting at my workbench last Tuesday, squinting through my loupe at the delicate escapement of a 1920s pocket watch, when my phone suddenly went dead. No signal, no…
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Scanning Paper at Home
Read more: Scanning Paper at HomeMost people approach a shopping guide for office equipment as if they are reading a physics textbook, drowning in a sea of “megapixels” and “optical resolution” numbers that don’t actually…